The following is a list compiled by Emilio at 949Racing after years of turbo Miata track development. I thought it was interesting how many omissions and mistakes currently exist in my car, so I thought I might share. I'm a long way from running a high boost car on the track, but I didn't realize how far.

 

Are these things he personally feels need to be done on the car? A lot of it kinda seems like overkill...

 

It isn't all for a lower powered car. It is pretty well everything you need to do to keep a ~300whp turbo car on the track for an hour or more at a time. Less would obviously be required for a 200whp car and on down.

 

Not one person has done all those things to their miata. this is by far the overkill list.

Some of them are even a joke (ie 5th injector thing is not even a turbo miata mod).

 

It used to be and it's still used in certain supercharger kits.

 

We've seen it several times on MT.net. And Fast Forward Superchargers (a huge m.net figure for some reason) sells many of them every year and swears it is the best way to do it. People get banned over there for saying 5th injectors are a joke, no kidding.

 

I can't deny that it used to be, but in my two years around miatters, I haven't seen a single turbo miata with a 5th injector.

as for the SC, thats about the only place I have seen it. Plus, what miata have you seen with a trans or diff cooler (other than the v8s)? No EGTs? Most of the track miatas don't run EGTs, hell Andrew doesn't (although thats because he is on E85).

Like I said its overkill for sure, I think you should aim for that, but many of those things don't necessarily constitute "done wrong" or "common mistakes".

 

AVO turbo kit:



Had 5th injector at the TB.